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Letters: Critical responses to African aid claims (Guardian Unlimited)
We were struck by the lack of a critical response to the research cited by Larry Elliott and Heather Stewart on Africa and the millennium development goals, ( Africa begins to make poverty history , 3 March). The article covers a key policy goal for governments in Africa and for the Department for International Development, other donors and the UN, so it is important that the research is ...
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Britain reduces aid to Malawi over presidential jet (AlertNet)
Source: Reuters * Britain cuts aid to 19 mln pounds * Malawi bought $13.26 mln presidential jet By Mabvuto Banda LILONGWE, March 10 (Reuters) - Britain, Malawi's main bilateral donor, has cut aid to the ...
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Opinions: Haiti Corruption; Financial Sector Tax, G8 Promises; Investing In Women (Medical News Today)
Preval's Response To Corruption Queries Is 'A Public Relations Debacle' A Washington Post editorial reflects on Haitian President Rene Preval's response to U.S. policy makers' queries "about the perils of corruption and what measures the Haitian government might devise to minimize misuse and theft of the billions of dollars in recovery assistance flowing into the country and the billions more ...
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Conference Calls For East African Countries To Prioritize Water, Sanitation Programs (Medical News Today)
During a sanitation conference being held in Kampala, Uganda, this week, "experts have urged regional countries to prioritize programs aimed at increasing access to safe water and sanitation" to move them closer to reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) target in 2015, New Times/allAfrica.com reports. "According to Water Aid, an international NGO, one billion people still lack access ...
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Mardell's America (BBC News)
'Open carry' activists do weekly shop with a gun
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Floods displace thousands in Mozambique and Angola (AlertNet)
Source: Reuters * Mozambique issues red alert in some flooded areas * Flooding expected to continue but human lives not at risk * Mozambique to evacuate about 130,000 people (Recasts with floods in Angola) By ...
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Landmark oil and mining transparency initiative faces credibility test as key deadline passes (Global Witness)
The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), a pioneering initiative to bring more openness to the world's oil and mining industries, faces a major credibility test after 20 out of 22 countries failed to meet a key deadline today.
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SWAZILAND: Tackling one crisis at a time does not solve all (AlertNet)
Source: IRIN The myriad crises afflicting Swaziland can only be solved with a holistic approach, not a piecemeal one, the World Food Programme (WFP) deputy executive director, Sheila Sisulu, said during a recent tour of the country.
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Bob Geldof rages at BBC over claim Live Aid millions were used to buy arms (Times Online)
Bob Geldof reacted angrily yesterday to claims broadcast on the BBC that millions of dollars raised by Band Aid were diverted to Ethiopian rebels.
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Africa begins to make poverty history (Guardian Unlimited)
US economists challenge conventional view that the continent is a basket case For decades, it has been seen as the world's lost continent. Now, a new study says that the view of Africa as a basket case is wrong. As the continent prepares to welcome thousands of international football fans for the World Cup in June, it seems the image of an economically vibrant region the hosts are keen to ...
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